Recognizing
The term for intended, non-accidental physical injury or cruelty to a child.
What is physical abuse?
Do or Don't?
Keep a disclosure confidential.
DO keep disclosures confidential.
This keeps students safe, gives them trust in the adults at school and respects their privacy.
Report a child protection concern only to a Designated Safeguarding Lead. Do not talk about the situation with other staff members or students.
Confidentiality and mandatory reporting are not mutually exclusive.
True of False? Only teachers should report child protection concerns.
FALSE: All staff are mandatory reporters and should report any concerns to a DSL.
Name of the document that contains important information about how we safeguard and protect children at Tiverton Academy.
What is the Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy?
The persistent failure to meet a child’s basic physical and/or psychological needs, likely to result in the serious impairment of the child’s health or development.
What is neglect?
Do or Don't?
After a disclosure, you should stay calm and listen without judgement.
DO stay calm and listen without judgment.
The step to take after "Reporting" a concern.
What is "Recording?"
True or False?
You should hug a student who is crying.
FALSE.
Maintain appropriate physical boundaries at all times, and touch students - when necessary - only in ways that are appropriate, and in public and in a non-sexual way.
Some reasons for this:
-Not everyone likes hugs
-Culture or religion
-School is a professional environment
-It leaves a door open for sexual predators to touch students
-It protects you from false accusations of abuse and from students misunderstanding your intentions.
The persistent emotional maltreatment of a child such as to cause severe and adverse effects on the child’s emotional development.
What is Emotional abuse?
Do or Don't?
Promise to keep a child protection disclosure a secret.
DON'T.
Never keep secrets if you have a child protection concern. All school staff members are obligated to report any child protection concerns.
Secrets and confidentiality are not the same. You can report a child protection concern to a DSL, and it can remain confidential.
True or False?
Child protection concerns need to be reported to a DSL within 48 hours.
FALSE.
Within 24 hours, you must report a child protection concern.
True or False?
Always be visible when working with students. Avoid being alone with students at school activities.
TRUE.
True or False? Sexual abuse can occur without physically touching the victim.
TRUE.
Examples: Exposure to sexually explicit material, communicating sexually explicit messages
Do or Don't?
Gather details and ask leading questions when you have a child protection concern.
DON'T.
Gathering details and asking too many questions can cause problems.
For example:
-A younger child could have trouble recalling events accurately during the investigation.
-Asking questions about a disturbing situation could exacerbate it or make it more difficult for the child to deal with.
Tracey Dunn, Sarah Mason, Liz Tennant, Runa Chowdhury, Ellie Bull
Who are the Designated Safeguarding Leads at Tiverton Academy?
This can include children being forced or manipulated into transporting drugs or money through county lines, working in cannabis factories, shoplifting or pickpocketing. They can also be forced or manipulated into committing vehicle crime or threatening/committing serious violence to others.
What is Child Criminal Exploitation?
It is:
-providing help and support to meet the needs of children as soon as problems emerge
-protecting children from maltreatment, inside or outside the home, including online.
-preventing the impairment of children’s mental and physical health or development
-ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
-taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes.
What is Safeguarding?
Do or Don't?
Before reporting, be sure to begin the investigation.
DON'T investigate.
Be sure to report to a DSL as soon as possible. They follow the protocol and have the training and experience with child protection reports.
Asking too many questions of the child, peers, or family members could backfire.
For example, if the person who did the abuse finds out about the investigation too soon, they could manipulate the child into silence.
This means providing support as soon as a problem emerges at any point in a child’s life, from the foundation years through to the teenage years.
What is Early Help?
These types of concern should be referred directly to the headteacher or principal
What should I do if I have a safeguarding concern about a member of staff?